Heraclitus Quotes

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Man knows much more than he understands.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Comprehension follows perception.

We don't care if you understand us.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

You can not hear what you do not understand.

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.